Regions Hospital Delineation of Privileges Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine

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1 Regions Hospital Delineation of Privileges Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine Applicant s Last First M. Instructions: Place a check-mark where indicated for each core group you are requesting. Review education and basic formal training requirements to make sure you meet them. Review documentation and experience requirements and be prepared to prove them. Note all renewing applicants are required to provide evidence of their current ability to perform the privileges being requested. When documentation of cases or procedures is required, attach said case/procedure logs to this privileges-request form. Provide complete and accurate names and addresses where requested -- it will greatly assist how quickly our credentialing-specialist can process your requests. 1

2 CORE I Emergency medicine privileges for physician assistant Privileges Initial and ongoing assessment of the patient s medical, physical, and psychiatric status including the following: perform and document complete medical history, perform and document complete physical examination, record diagnostic impressions, write orders for diagnostic tests; activities, therapies, diet and vital signs; drugs; IV fluids; blood and blood products; oxygen; and consultation with medical staff members, instruct, educate and counsel patients on health status, results of tests, disease process, discharge summaries, and planning, and evaluate interim patient status and document in the medical record. Assess, evaluate, diagnose, and initially treat patients of all ages who present to the ED with any symptom, illness, injury, or condition and provide services necessary to ameliorate minor illnesses or injuries; stabilize patients with major illnesses or injuries and assess all patients to determine if additional care is necessary. Privileges do not include long-term care of patients on an inpatient basis. Privileges do not include ability to admit or perform scheduled elective procedures with the exception of procedures performed during routine emergency room visits. Basic education and minimal formal training 1. Graduate of an Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant (ARC-PA) approved program (known as Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs prior to January 2001) 2. Must provide evidence of current ACLS, PALS, or ATLS certification. Required documentation and experience NEW APPLICANTS: 1. License to practice as a physician assistant issued by the Minnesota Board of Medicine. 2. Current (re)certification by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. 3. Physician Physician Assistant Delegation Agreement and Notice of Intent to Practice 4. Provide contact information for (1) a physician assistant and (2) a physician whom the credentialing specialist may contact to provide an evaluation of your clinical competence to perform the privileges requested. Name of Facility: Name of Facility: REAPPOINTMENT APPLICANTS: 1. Physician Physician Assistant Delegation Agreement and Notice of Intent to Practice 2. Provide contact information for a physician whom the credentialing specialist may contact to provide an evaluation of your clinical competence to perform the privileges requested. Name of Facility: 2

3 Prescribing authority for physician assistant Privileges Dispense and administer categories of drugs including controlled substances. Basic education and minimal formal training 1. License to practice as a physician assistant issued by the Minnesota Board of Medicine. 2. Current certification/recertification by NCCPA. 3. DEA registration Required documentation and experience NEW APPLICANTS 1. Physician--Physician Assistant Delegation Agreement with Delegation of Prescriptive Practice section completed 2. Delegation Agreement and Notice of Intent to Practice REAPPOINTMENT APPLICANTS 1. Physician--Physician Assistant Delegation Agreement with Delegation of Prescriptive Practice section completed 2. Internal Protocol and Prescribing Delegation form. 3

4 Core Procedure List PA Clinical Privileges in Emergency Medicine To the applicant: Strike though those procedures you do not wish to request. This list is a sampling of procedures included in the cores. This is not intended to be all-encompassing but rather reflective of the categories/types of procedures included in the core 1. Administer analgesia; regional block anesthesia including double cuff method Bier block 2. Administer medications and perform other emergency treatment 3. Perform anoscopy 4. Apply, remove, and manage casts and splints 5. Apply, remove, and change dressings and bandages 6. Perform wound debridement, suturing, and general care for superficial wounds and minor superficial surgical procedures 7. Immobilize (spine, long bone, soft tissue) 8. Insert and remove nasogastric tubes 9. Insert Heimlich (small gauge) valve 10. Manage epistaxis 11. Ocular tonometry 12. Perform arterial puncture and blood gas sampling 13. Perform incision and drainage of superficial and complex abscesses 14. Perform interpretation of EKGs 15. Perform preliminary interpretations of simple plain X-ray films 16. Perform routine immunizations 17. Perform urinary bladder catheterization 18. Perform venous punctures for blood sampling, cultures, and IV catheterization 19. Reduce joint dislocations 20. Perform removal of foreign body 21. Splint extremity fractures 22. Trephination and removal of nail 23. Perform lumbar puncture 24. Perform arthrocentesis 25. Perform paracentesis 4

5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PRACTITIONER I have requested only those privileges for which by education training, current experience and demonstrated performance I am qualified to perform and that I wish to exercise at Regions Hospital. I understand that: 1. In exercising any clinical privilege granted, I am governed by Regions Hospital and Regions Medical Staff policies and rules applicable generally and any applicable to the particular situation. I agree to supply Regions Hospital Medical Staff Services (or designee) with all the information that has been requested of me for the privileges that I have applied for. I also understand that my application for privileges will not proceed until the information is received. Signature I have reviewed and/or discussed the privileges requested and find them to be commensurate with his/her training and experience, and recommend that his/her application proceed. Sponsoring Physician s Name (PLEASE PRINT) Sponsoring Physician s Signature DIVISION / SECTION HEAD RECOMMENDATION I have reviewed and/or discussed the clinical privileges requested and supporting documentation for the above-named applicant and make the following recommendation/s: Recommend all requested privileges Recommend privileges with the following conditions/modifications Do not recommend the following requested privileges Privilege Condition / Modification / Explanation Notes: Regions Division/Section Head Signature 5